Assistant Finance Director, Commissioning, Value & Business Intel inCarmarthen inCarmarthen PUBLISHED
TUE 7 JAN 2025
Hywel Dda University Health Board r4ec5Fxp
This position offers an opportunity for professional growth within a supportive environment that values innovation in value-based healthcare and digital services. The Health Board emphasises bilingual communication, particularly in Welsh, as part of its commitment to improving patient and service user experiences. The role requires agility in working arrangements, combining office and remote work, while contributing to the organisation's goal of sustainable and accessible healthcare.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced finance leader to join the Health Board as we drive the changes needed within the organisation to provide safe, sustainable and accessible services to the population we serve.
Providing services across a rural and dispersed population provides a unique set of challenges and opportunities; and we have embraced innovations within value based healthcare, quality improvement, organisational development, business intelligence and digital services to support the organisation in its mission.
This would be an excellent opportunity for an aspiring Finance leader. Working with partners within and outside the organisation, the successful candidate will have a key role in identifying and harnessing opportunities and innovations to help address the challenges of healthcare delivery in West Wales.
The role will work collaboratively with service and clinical leaders in pursuit of service transformation and delivery of new and innovative projects to deliver optimal patient pathways, alongside financial sustainability plans. You will also have key responsibility for medium and long term plans, including leading on the review of business intelligence.
We have a track record of supporting colleagues with development opportunities, and are proud to create the conditions needed for individual and team success.
- The post-holder will be instrumental in providing leadership within the Finance function as part of the Directorate Management Team;
- Providing a robust and value-adding strategic financial advice and reporting function for the Health Board, its subcommittees, service leads and external regulators;
- Advise senior leaders across the health board of the financial impacts of service development and work in conjunction with cross departmental strategic teams to develop and implement health board strategy;
- Drive an increased understanding of cost and activity drivers and performance metrics, using performance indicators, costing techniques, business cases and investment appraisal guidance and other centrally led finance initiatives to meet corporate priorities;
- Management and direction of a team to help them deal with the competing demands, ensuring the capability provides clear, robust analysis, communication, and commentary on service activity;
- Lead on the development and application of a continuous opportunity framework, ensuring active promotion and engagement amongst service leads and Business Partners, in pursuing financial recovery and sustainability options.
- Provide excellent business insight and negotiation skills which will support the effective operation of processes relating to the negotiation and performance management of clinical and non-clinical agreements with other NHS organisations.
About us
If you are looking for a position to join a vibrant team within a large Health Board, then please do not hesitate to apply for this exceptional opportunity.
Please also note that we expect to continue with agile working, with a notional 50:50 split between working in the office and working from home, subject to change and service demand.
You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.
The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals.
The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.
If successfully shortlisted you will be asked to complete psychometric assessments. Information regarding these and the stakeholder panels/interview will be sent to you following completion of shortlisting.
Stakeholder panels will be held on 18/02/25
Interviews will be held on 19/02/25
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